Little can be discovered about Ian MacNab. He received his medical education at Birmingham, whence he graduated MB ChB in 1943 and obtained the Fellowship in 1947. Emigrating to Canada he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and specialised in orthopaedic surgery, and was a pro

John Valentine Todd was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Newcastle Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. He was born in either 1912 or 1913 and studied medicine at Durham University, qualifying MB BS in 1935 and proceeded to Liverpool to specialise in orthopaedics. He was consulta

Lipmann Kessel was born in South Africa on 19 December 1914. He studied first at Witwatersrand University and then at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1937. Following resident posts in London he joined the RAMC. He volunteered for parachute duties and became surgeon in command of No

Jon Walley, no-one ever used the George, was born on 15 April 1915 at Horncastle in Lincolnshire. His father, also George Jon and a Colonel in the Lincolnshire Regiment, was killed in the first world war. He was a gifted child and from Horncastle Grammar School he obtained an open scholarship to Bal

Ted Dewar was born in Saskatchewan in 1911. His family subsequently moved to Ontario where he received his elementary and secondary education in Orangeville. He was admitted to the University of Toronto Medical School and obtained his MD in 1936. In 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Cor

John Raymond Addison was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1916 and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied medicine at Dunedin and graduated from Otago University in 1940. He joined the medical service of the New Zealand Navy in 1941 and saw active service in the Pacific, At